Marshall St. Clair

“A science block, a maths block, and a small outbuilding for home economics, but the main Mount Temple is a single-story cinder-block building of three corridors—one green, one yellow, one purple—cross-sectioned in the middle by a wider corridor known as the Mall. On the Mall is where I first see Adam Clayton, where I first spy Larry Mullen with his beautiful girlfriend, Ann Acheson, where I first come face-to-face with David Evans, whom no one has yet named the Edge.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“The prevailing Federalist view was that such a covenant was lovely to talk about but impossible to bring into being. John Quincy Adams was right when he told his diary that political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. “The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense,” Adams wrote during Jefferson’s first term.12 The Founders’ dream of a nation beyond partisanship was one that simply could not survive the very nature of a free politics in a culture of diverse interests.”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

“one divided by 81 expressed as a decimal came out as .0123456789, which then recurred literally forever, 0123456789 over and over and over again,”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Take any three consecutive numbers, the largest divisible by three, and add them up, and then add the digits of the result, again and again if necessary, until just a single number is left. That number will be six.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man